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The reminder that there’s no automatic connection between a D next to your name and some courage on climate comes from many spots around the...
Manchin’s latest attempt at permitting reform would try and force the approval of huge new LNG export terminals along the Gulf Coast, which are both...
Something approaching a miracle has been taking place in California this spring. Beginning in early March, for some portion of almost every day, a...
When we were busily converting to color television there was not a giant industry pulling out every trick to stop us making that choice.
With her flip-flop on congestion pricing, New York Governor Kathy Hochul, not the youth-led Sunrise Movement, is the real climate traitor.
I can remember, a quarter century ago, when photographers would call me fairly regularly to ask where they should go to take pictures of global...
It’s a strong triple threat to say: Trump will take away your rights. He will take away your democracy. And he will take away the planet you’ve...
Trump’s reported billion-dollar offer to fossil-fuel executives shows that this is the key year to save the planet.
A May 1 Senate hearing on the industry’s history of deception is a signal of what a second-term Biden administration might be willing and able to...
In recent days, the Biden Administration has been on a remarkable roll when it comes to the environment, with one key announcement after another...
If Amazon and Apple and Microsoft wanted to avoid a world where, by century’s end, people had 60% less money to spend on buying whatever they plan...
Speeding up the necessary transition to renewable energy requires political mobilization to break the power of the fossil fuel industry.
The morally right side doesn’t lose the crucial battles: the arc of the moral universe is long, but it does bend toward justice. We know that lesson...
Everyone’s job this decade is to arrest the sudden and sickening lurch upward in temperature, so that there’s somewhere at least a little stable...
There’s no way we can build out renewable energy fast enough to meet this kind of extra demand—it’s going to be at the bleeding edge of the...
If a chemical company pollutes a site, the superfund law has been a way to make it pay for the remediation—so if Vermont’s flooding cost its...
I live in the mountains of the Northeast, and normally the last thing I want in the spacious days of summer is something to watch on TV. But this year...
We simply “waited too long,” said ExxonMobil's top executive last week. But never mind, the important thing is that we made “above-average...
We’ve just come through the warmest December and January ever measured globally, and February seems certain to follow.
With the planet having just endured the hottest twelve months in human history, it’s not surprising that winter has been a dreary affair across...
Our institutions—from the White House to the university president, from the bank CEO to the labor leader, from the newspaper editor to the religious...
Last week, Bank of America engaged in perhaps the single most irresponsible about-face of the climate era.
That this is a huge victory can’t be said strongly enough—for the people in the Gulf who have fought so long and hard as well as for the planet.
Yes, there are always devils in the details. And it doesn’t guarantee long-term victory, but it sets up a process where victory is possible.
The campaign is designed to get the world’s third largest retailer to pressure its bank—Citi—to stop funding fossil fuel expansion.
Next month you can join with others who "think it is an honor to rise in defense of the planet we love, and the places where we live."
If the villainy of the fossil fuel industry or the hard work of climate politics are weighing you down, wait until you hear about the future of energy...
And yet you really wouldn’t know it from reading the wrap-ups of the year’s news now appearing on one website after another.
Such a win would make it easier to boost this beleaguered presidential campaign—which has got to be a central focus for anyone worried about the...
The global climate agreement that emerged from Dubai is literally meaningless—and potentially meaningful. Now it's up to us.
Language doesn’t translate into action; it just gives activists one more weapon to use when they return from Dubai to the nations, states, cities,...
The point of climate negotiations should not be to produce a deal, it’s to stop the flow of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And that means a...